Tag: Warner Bros. Discovery
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The Cost of Cable TV Could Be Going Up Because Of Streaming Services Thanks to Spectrum, Paramount, and Disney
When Disney and Charter struck a new agreement to bring Disney+ to Spectrum cable customers, it set a new precedent for how traditional pay-TV and streaming services could be bundled together. But it could also open the door to higher costs for cable TV customers. This is clearly a new structure that Charter wants to…
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Sesame Street is Getting a Soft Reboot For its 56th Season
Changes are coming to Sesame Street ahead of the series’ 56th season. The long-running children’s show returns in 2025 with longer, narrative-driven segments and an animated companion series, Tales From 123. Sesame Street will move away from its “magazine” format of showing short segments to expand the show to two eleven-minute stories, with Tales From…
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Warner Bros Discovery Reportedly Looking to Add College Football to the Mix
The college football postseason is expanding from four teams to twelve starting next season, which means more games. While ESPN has exclusive playoff rights through the 2025/2026 season, the league anticipates splitting the rights throughout multiple partners when penning its next deal. Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly “the one to watch” as contract negotiations loom…
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Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Other Streamers Join Forces in Opposition to Government Regulation
The streaming service titans have banded together to launch the Streaming Innovation Alliance, or SIA, the industry’s first unified coalition. The trade group’s board includes big names like Netflix, Paramount’s Paramount+ and Pluto TV, Warner Bros. Discover’s Max, Comcast’s Peacock and Disney, which has Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, according to Axios. TelevisaUnivision, Univision’s ViX, the…
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Max Will Stream Live NBA, MLB, NHL Games For Free Through February With “Bleacher Report” Sports Add-On
Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday said that Max will stream live sports on its service through the Bleacher Report Sports Add-On tier. The Bleacher Report tier will launch on October 5, and will be available for free to all customers through February 29. Afterwards, the add-on will cost $9.99 a month, and is available on…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Will Shut Down or Sell AT&T SportsNet RSNs Here is What is Happening To Each Channel
Last month, Warner Bros. Discovery said it would shut down all its AT&T SportsNet’s regional sports networks by the end of the year, but it seems like it could happen early. The fate of the three RSNs (with Warner Bros. Discovery a minority stakeholder in a fourth) has been in the air with shifting ownership…
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Everything We Know About Warner Bros. Discovery’s New Free Streaming Service Called ‘WBTV’ & Why It is Taking So Long
Earlier this year, we learned that Warner Bros. Discovery has been planning a free streaming service. Since that announcement, Warner Bros. Discovery has gone dark on the service, focusing more on news about Max. So what should we expect from it? What will it offer? What is taking so long for the service to launch?…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Says It’s “Really Shut Down” As Writers Strike Continues
Warner Bros. Discovery continues to feel the impact of the ongoing writers and actors strike. Following last week’s news that the company could lose up to $500 million in adjusted earnings for 2023, executives are reiterating their desire to resolve the strikes and “get back to work,” according to Deadline. “From an operational/financial perspective, we’re…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Reportedly Plans to Add CNN Original Shows to Max
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max streaming service reportedly will soon be adding original CNN programming to build out its streaming service offerings. According to a report from Variety, Max will be launching original CNN programming. These shows will be posted by Jim Sciutto, Bianna Golodryga, Rahel Solomon, and Christiane Amanpour. This comes as Peacock recently launched several…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Shuts Down Its Live TV Streaming Service iStreamPlanet
Recently Warner Bros. Discovery has been busy cutting costs any way it can, and now iStreamPlanet is the latest service to be cut. iStreamPlanet was a company that offered its clients the ability to live stream TV over the internet. Many large companies used iStreamPlanet to manage their live streams, including Fox, NBC Sports, and…